disability

Creekside Center, the new home of the Disabled Students' Program, is a building that was designed in 1920 by campus architect John Galen Howard. When it was renovated, the two-story wood frame building retained its wood plank exterior walls and windows with tiny square panes.

Campus news

Introducing Creekside Center, a new home for UC Berkeley’s Disabled Students’ Program

Dwinelle Annex was rehabbed to create a long-awaited "one-stop shop" for DSP, which serves about 5,500 students on campus.

Campus & community

Finding Space: How accommodations can transform teaching

A black and white illustration depicts an artist’s imagining of an aquifer, showing a large underground mass sprouting a collection of small arms that reach for the roots of plants growing above.

Humanities

Can an aquifer be injured? Scholar brings a disability lens to ecological repair

William Carter wears headphones and listens as a computer program reads text from transcribed slave ship logs, the original of which is displayed on a computer screen.

People

With newly digitized slave ship logs, Berkeley Ph.D. student examines race, power — and literacy

a person looks at the camera through the sides of her eyes

Britt H. Young on learning to navigate the world with the body she has

Judy Heumann talking to a student holding flowers she was given

UC Berkeley mourns, celebrates the life of disability rights icon Judith Heumann

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Berkeley Talks: Judith Heumann on the long fight for inclusion

DCC panel moderated by Karen Nakamura

How community spaces can empower students to mobilize, explore their identity

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Disability alliance chair Diana Stasko: ‘My mom was a very strong role model’

a person types at a computer screen, transcribing a written powerpoint slide about chemistry into a devices that will narrate what the slide says to those who can't easily see computer screens

New campus committee will focus on digital accessibility

Hari Srinivasan, a psychology major and winner of the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans.

‘Minimally speaking autistic’ student wins Soros fellowship for Ph.D.

mariana soto sanchez sits in a wheelchair and wears a shirt that reads

Disabled and empowered: How Mariana Soto Sanchez found self-advocacy at Berkeley

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COVID Stories: What is it like to be hearing impaired during COVID-19?

Gopala Anumanchipalli smiles at the camera

Meet our new faculty: Gopala Anumanchipalli, computer science

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Berkeley Talks: Bess Williamson on the history of disability and design

Exterior of a courthouse in South Dakota

How state courts use disability to remove Native children from their homes